Event Date
Thur 2/24/2022, 1-2PM, Olson 53A
Teaching Heritage Languages: Student Profiles and Classroom Strategies
Agustina Carando, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
This interactive meeting is directed at language instructors in heritage or mixed classes. It will include an overview of heritage speakers' characteristics and needs, and some pedagogical approaches to address them. I will also share the syllabi and assignments that are part of our heritage Spanish program. Finally, we will dedicate some time to discuss ideas, concerns and challenges from instructors in attendance, with the goal of learning from our diverse experiences and creating a supporting community for heritage languages in Sproul.
Before the talk, please fill out this brief survey: https://forms.gle/zRmvuit5VQRxfMLW8
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Agustina Carando is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Director of the Spanish for Native Speakers Program. As a native Spanish speaker immersed in an English context, she became interested in the ways that bilinguals use their two languages and how one may influence the other, leading to long term changes in their mental grammar. Working with spontaneous and experimental data, she seeks to explore the ways that languages interact in the bilingual mind, how similarities and differences between the grammars are negotiated, what structures might be more or less vulnerable and under what circumstances, the role of frequency of exposure and, ultimately, the internal mechanisms underlying linguistic change.